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St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details temple of Chnoum, withim seem between trench wall and the south-east corner of the basement
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 31 1 2006 and 20 4 2006
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution (not relevant)
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type stela
Dating of Object Ptolemaios VI./VIII.
Dating between -170 and -164
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object two-sided
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Crude and compact.
Comments on Text Layout Side 1: Narrow and unsteady lne pitch. The text is placed onto the right part within a framed column. Side 2: Medium and unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface, with small and unequal margins on all sides.
Existing Pictorial Elements Side 1: In the lunette a winged sun disc. First regsiter man (the donor) kneelling rightwards, with a lotos flower in the hand. In front of him the ẖnm-vessel. Second register: Ram depicting Chnoum.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8 1
Quantity of Columns 5 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 15 65
Column Height (in mm) 63 75
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 15 x 63 65 x 75

 

Text Content

Modern Title stela with rn mn-dedication to Chnoum
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content dedication "rn mn" before Chnoum
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures

side 1

1rn(=y)
2mn
3m-bꜣḥ H̱nm
4Ns-pꜣ-ꜥ-
5-mr sꜣ
6Ns-H̱nm
7tme
8s
9r-ḏ.t
side 2

1rn(=y) mn
2m-bꜣḥ H̱nm
3Ns-pꜣ-ꜥ-mr (sꜣ)
4Ns-H̱nm mw.t=f
5Tꜣ-ḏı͗-ꜣs.t-ḏı͗-ꜥnḫ
1(My) name
2remain
3before Chnoum.
4Espa-
5-mer, son
6of Eschnoumis.
8Call
8it
9for ever!
1(My) name remain
2before Chnoum.
3Espamer, (son)
4of Eschnoumis and his mother
5Teteesis-dianchis.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8090 not applicable (no further persons mentioned) (no further persons mentỈoned) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios VI Philometor -181 BCE -117 BCE Dating by archaeological context (Ptolemaios VI./ VIII);

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307664
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 107279
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307664 (= St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).